Grammy Awards for 1971

By Patrick Mondout

The big winner at the 14th annual Grammy Awards, which were presented on March 14, 1972, was unquestionably Carole King. She won for both album ("Tapestry") and record ("It's Too Late"). No female had ever won both categories. She even won for writing "You've Got a Friend" which was made popular by James Taylor. In fact when you add the Best New Artist award for Taylor's future wife Carly Simon, it was truly the musical Year of the Woman.

Note: All nominees are listed and denotes the Grammy winner(s).

Record of the Year
	"It's Too Late" - Carole King
	"Joy to the World" - Three Dog Night
	"My Sweet Lord" - George Harrison
	"Theme from Shaft" - Isaac Hayes
	"You've Got a Friend" - James Taylor

Song of the Year
	"Help Me Make it Through the Night" - Kris Kristofferson
	"It's Impossible" - Sid Wayne, Armando Manzanero
	"Me and Bobby McGee" - Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster
	"Rose Garden" - Joe South
	"You've Got a Friend" - Carole King

Album of the Year
	All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
	The Carpenters - Carpenters
	Jesus Christ Superstar
	Shaft - Isaac Hayes
	Tapestry - Carole King

New Artist
	Chase
	Emerson, Lake and Palmer
	Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds
	Carly Simon
	Bill Withers

Pop Male Vocalist
	Perry Como - "It's Impossible"
	Neil Diamond - "I Am...I Said"
	Gordon Lightfoot - "If You Could Read My Mind"
	James Taylor - "You've Got a Friend"
	Bill Withers - "Ain't No Sunshine"

Pop Female Vocalist
	Joan Baez - "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
	Cher - "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves"
	Janis Joplin - "Me and Bobby McGee"
	Carole King - "Tapestry"
	Carly Simon - "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be"

Pop Vocal Group
	Bee Gees - "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"
	Carpenters - Carpenters
	Jesus Christ Superstar - London cast
	Sonny & Cher - "All I Ever Need Is You"
	Three Dog Night - "Joy to the World"

Best Pop Instrumental Performance
	Quincy Jones - Smackwater Jack
	Burt Bacharach - Burt Bacharach
	Michel Legrand - "Theme from Summer of '42"
	Henry Mancini - "Theme from Love Story"
	Peter Nero - "Theme from Summer of '42"

Best Rhythm & Blues Song
	"Ain't No Sunshine" - Bill Withers
	"If I Were Your Woman" - Clay McMurray, Laverne Ware, Pamela Sawyer
	"Mr. Big Stuff" - Joseph Broussard
	"Never Can Say Goodbye" - Clifton Davis
	"Smiling Faces Sometimes" - Norman Whitefield, Barrett Strong

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Male
	Lou Rawls - "A Natural Man"
	Marvin Gaye - "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)"
	Isaac Hayes - "Never Can Say Goodbye"
	B.B. King - "Ain't Nobody Home"
	Stevie Wonder - "We Can Work It Out"

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female
	Aretha Franklin - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
	Janis Joplin - Pearl
	Jean Knight - "Mr. Big Stuff"
	Freda Payne - Contact
	Diana Ross - "I Love You (Call Me)"

Best Rhythm & Blues Performance - Duo or Group (Vocal or Instrumental)
	Ike & Tina Turner - "Proud Mary"
	Robert Flack, Donny Hathaway - "You've Got a Friend"
	Isaac Hayes - "Theme from Shaft"
	Gladys Knight & the Pips - "If I Were Your Woman"
	Staple Singers - "Respect Yourself"

Best Jazz Performance - Soloist
	Bill Evans - The Bill Evans Album
	Larry Coryell - Gypsy Queen
	Dizzy Gillespie - Portrait of Jenny
	Earl Hines - Quintessential Recording Session
	Carmen McRae - Carmen McRae
	Jimmy Rushing - The You and Me That Used to Be
	Phil Woods - Phil Woods and His European Rhythm Machine at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival

Best Jazz Performance - Group
	Bill Evans Trio - The Bill Evans Album
	Gary Burton, Keith Jarrett - Gary Burton and Keith Jarrett
	Miles Davis - Miles Davis at the Fillmore
	Roy Eldridge - The Nifty Cat
	Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby Hackett, Mary Lou Williams - Giants
	Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi
	Phil Woods - Phil Woods and His European Rhythm Machine at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival

Best Jazz Performance - Big Band
	Duke Ellington - "New Orleans Suite"
	Count Basie - Afrique
	Buddy Rich - A Different Drummer
	Maynard Ferguson - Maynard Ferguson - M.F. Horn
	Woody Herman - Woody

Best Country & Western Song
	"Help Me Make It Through the Night" - Kris Kristofferson
	"Easy Loving" - Freddie Hart
	"For the Good Times" - Kris Kristofferson
	"Me and Bobby McGee" - Kris Kristofferson
	"Rose Garden" - Joe South

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Male
	Jerry Reed - "When You're Hot, You're Hot"
	Freddie Hart - "Easy Loving"
	Johnny Paycheck - "She's All I Got"
	Ray Price - "I Won't Mention It Again"
	Charley Pride - "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'"

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female
	Sammi Smith - "Help Me Make It Through the Night"
	Lynn Anderson - "How Can I Unlove You"
	Jody Miller - "He's So Fine"
	Dolly Parton - "Joshua"
	Tammy Wynette - "Good Lovin'"

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Duo or Group
	Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn - "After the Fire Is Gone"
	Roy Acuff with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - "I Saw the Light"
	Johnny Cash, June Carter - "No Need to Worry"
	Tompall & the Glaser Brothers - "Rings"
	Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton - "Better Move It on Home"

Best Country & Western Instrumental
	Chet Atkins - Snowbird
	Bakersfield Brass - Rose Garden
	Floyd Cramer - For the Good Times
	Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
	Jerry Kennedy - Jerry Kennedy Plays: With All Due Respect to Kris Kristofferson

Best Sacred Performance - Musical
	Charley Pride - Did You Think to Pray
	Pat Boone Family - Pat Boone Family
	Anita Bryant - Abide with Me
	Dolly Parton - Golden Streets of Glory
	George Beverly Shea - "Amazing Grace"

Best Soul Gospel Performance
	Shirley Caesar - Put Your Hand in the Hand of the Man from Galilee
	Blind Boys of Alabam - The Five Blind Boys of Alabama
	Dottie Rambo - Pass Me Not
	Valerie Simpson - There Is a God
	Clara Ward - Great Moments in Gospel

Best Gospel Performance
	Charley Pride - "Let Me Live"
	Blackwood Brothers - He's Still King of Kings
	Imperials - Time to Get It Together
	Hovie Lister with the Statesmen - Put Your Hand in the Hand
	Oak Ridge Boys - Jesus Christ, What a Man

Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording
	They Call Me Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters
	18th Century Traditional Music of Japan - Keiko Matsuo
	The Esso Trinidad Steel Band - Esso Trinidad Steel Band
	Javanese Court Gamelan - Javanese Players
	Message to the Young - Howlin' Wolf
	Mississippi Fred McDowell - Mississippi Fred McDowell
	Stormy Monday Blues - T-Bone Walker

Best Instrumental Composition
	Michel Legrand - "Theme from Summer of '42"
	Duke Ellington - "New Orleans Suite"
	Isaac Hayes - "Theme from Shaft"
	Francis Lai - "Theme from Love Story"
	Chuck Mangione - "Hill Where the Lord Hides"

Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album
	Godspell - Stephen Schwartz
	Follies - Stephen Sondheim
	The Rothschilds - Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick
	Touch - Kenny Long, Jim Crazier
	Two by Two - Richard Rodgers, Martin Charnin

Best Original Score written for a Motion Picture or Television Special
	Shaft - Isaac Hayes
	Bless the Beasts and the Children - Barry DeVorzon, Perry Botkin Jr.
	Friends - Elton John, Bernie Taupin
	Love Story - Francis Lai
	Ryan's Daughter - Maurice Jarre

Best Instrumental Arrangement
	Isaac Hayes, Johnny Allen - "Theme from Shaft"
	Michel Colombier - "Earth"
	Michel Legrand - "Theme from Summer of '42"
	Joshua Rifkin - "Nightingale II"
	Don Sebesky - "The Rite of Spring" (Hubert Laws)

Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
	Paul McCartney - "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" (Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney)
	Burt Bacharach, Pat Williams - "Long Ago Tomorrow" (B.J. Thomas)
	Richard Carpenter - "Superstar" (Carpenters)
	Michel Colombier - "Freedom and Fear"  (Bill Medley)
	David Van Depitte - "What's Going On" (Marvin Gaye)

Album of the Year - Classical
	Horowitz Plays Rachmaninov - (etudes tableaux, piano music, sonatas) (solo: Vladimir Horowitz)
	Berlioz: Requiem - Colin Davis conducting the London Symphony; Russell Burgess conducting the Wandsworth School Boys' Choir; Arthur Oldham conducting the London Symphony Chorus
	Boulez Conducts Boulez: Pli Selon Pli - Pierre Boulez conducting the BBC Symphony
	Crumb: Ancient Voices of Children - Arthur Weisberg conducting the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble (solos: DeGaetani, Dash)
	Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 65-72 (Vol. 1) - Antal Dorati conducting the Philharmonia Hungarica
	Janacek: Sinfonietta; Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra - Seiji Ozawa conducting the Chicago Symphony
	Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major - Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Chicago Symphony
	Pendericki: Utrenja, the Entombment of Christ - Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra; Robert Page directing the Temple University Choirs
	Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14 - Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra (solos: Curtin, Estes)
	Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage - Colin Davis conducting the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
	Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Chicago Symphony - Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major
	Pierre Boulez conducting the BBC Symphony - Boulez Conducts Boulez: Pli Selon Pli
	Antal Dorati conducting the Philharmonia Hungarica - Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 65-72 (Vol. 1)
	Bernard Haitink conducting the London Philharmonic - Holst: The Planets
	Jascha Horenstein conducting the London Symphony - Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor
	Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra - Respighi: The Fountains of Rome; The Pines of Rome
	Andre Previn conducting the London Symphony - Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) with Orchestra
	Julian Bream (Previn conducting the London Symphony) - Villa-Lobos: Concerto for Guitar
	Kyung-Wha Chung (Previn conducting the London Symphony) - Sibelius: Concerto in D Minor for Violin; Tchaikovsky: Concerto in D Major for Violin
	Van Cliburn (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra) - Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Liszt: Concerto No. 2 in A Major
	Jacqueline Du Pre (Barenboim conducting the Chicago Symphony) - Dvorak: Concerto in B Minor for Cello
	Igor Kipnis (Marriner conducting the London Strings) - Bach: Complete Concertos for Harpsichord and Orchestra
	Yehudi Menuhin (Walton conducting the New Philharmonia) - Walton: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra; Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
	David Oistrakh, Mstislav Rostropovich, Sviatoslav Richter (von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic) - Beethoven: Triple Concerto (Concerto in C Major for Violin, Piano and Cello, Op. 56)
	Henryk Szeryng (Kubelik conducting the Bavarian Symphony) - Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra; Martinon: Concerto for Violin
	Paul Zukofsky (Thomas conducting the Boston Symphony) - W. Schuman: Concerto for Violin

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) without Orchestra
	Vladimir Horowitz - Horowitz Plays Rachmaninov (etudes tableaux, piano music, sonatas)
	Stephen Bishop - Bartok: Mikrokosmos, Vol. 6; Out of Doors Suite; Sonatina
	Aldo Ciccolini - Satie: Piano Music for Erik Satie, Vol. 5
	Van Cliburn - Barber: Sonata for Piano; Prokofiev: Sonata No. 6 in A Major
	Alicia de Larrocha - Alicia de Larrocha Plays Spanish Piano Music of the 20th Century
	Glenn Gould - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Vol. 3, Preludes and Fugues 17-24
	Joshua Rifkin - Piano Rags by Scott Joplin
	Artur Rubinstein - The Brahms I Love
	Rudolf Serkin - Beethoven: Sonata No. 29 in B Flat, Op. 106 ("Hammerklavier")

Best Chamber Music Performance
	Juilliard Quartet - Debussy: Quartet in G Minor; Ravel: Quartet in F Major
	Beaux Arts Trio - Dvorak: Piano Trios (Complete)
	Jan DeGaetani, Michael M. Dash (Arthur Weisberg conducting the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble) - Crumb: Ancient Voices of Children
	Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Concentus Musicus - Fux-Schmelzer: Music in the Hapsburg Palace
	Jascha Heifetz, Brooks Smith - Schubert: Fantaisie in C Major for Violin (and Piano) Op. 159
	Jean-Pierre Rampal, Isaac Stern, Alexander Schneider, Leonard Rose - The Mozart Quartets for Flute
	Paul Zukofsky, Gilbert Kalish, Charles Russo, Robert Sylvester (New York String Quartet) - Ives: Chamber Music

Best Opera Recording
	Verdi: Aida - Erich Leinsdorf conducting the London Symphony; John Alldis Choir (solos: Price, Domingo, Milnes, Bumbry, Raimondi)
	Massenet: Manon - Julius Rudel conducting the New Philharmonia and Ambrosian Opera Chorus (solos: Sills, Gedda, Souzay, Bacquier)
	Mozart: The Magic Flute - Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic (solos: Prey, Lorengar, Burrows, Fischer-Dieskau, Deutekorn, Talvela)
	Puccini: Il Tabarro - Erich Leinsdorf conducting the New Philharmonia; John Alldis Choir (solos: Price, Domingo, Milnes)
	Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage - Colin Davis conducting the Orchestra of Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (solos: Remedios, Carlyle, Burrows, Harwood)
	Verdi: Don Carlo - Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Orchestra of Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Ambrosian Opera Chorus (solos: Domingo, Caballe, Raimondi, Milnes, Verrett)
	Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg - Herbert von Karajan conducting the Dresden State Opera Orchestra and Choruses of Dresden State Opera and Leipzig Radio (solos: Adam, Donath, Kollo, Evans, Schreider)
	Wagner: Parsifal - Pierre Boulez conducting the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Stewart, Ridderbusch, Crass, King, Jones, McIntyre)

Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist
	Leontyne Price (Garvey, accompanist) - Leontyne Price Sings Robert Schumann
	Janet Baker, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - An Evening of Duets
	Cathy Berberian (Berio conducting the BBC Symphony) - Berio: Epifanie
	Phyllis Curtin, Simon Estes (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra) - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14
	Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Peters conducting the Vienna Haydn Orchestra) - Haydn and Mozart Arias
	Evelyn Lear, Thomas Stewart - Ives: American Scenes/American Poets
	Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Furtwangler, accompanist) - Wolf: Songs (Salzburg Festival 1953)

Best Choral Performance
	Colin Davis conducting the London Symphony; Russell Burgess conducting the Wandsworth School Boys' Choir; Arthur Oldham conducting the London Symphony Chorus - Berlioz: Requiem
	Wolfgang Frommc conducting the Collegium Vocale of Cologne - Stockhausen: Stimmung
	Robert Page directing the Temple University Choirs; Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra - Penderecki: Utrenjan, the Entombment of Christ
	Ensti Pohjola conducting the Helsinki University Men's Choir; Paavo Berglund conducting the Bournemouth Symphony - Sibelius: Kullervo, Op. 7
	Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducting the Moscow Radio Symphony - Prokofiev: Seven, They Are Seven
	Roger Wagner conducting the Los Angeles Master Chorale; Zubin Mehta conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic - Verdi: 4 Sacred Pieces

Best Engineered Recording - Classical
	Vittorio Negri - Berlioz: Requiem (Davis conducting the London Symphony; Burgess conducting the Wandsworth School Boys' Choir; Oldham conducting the London Symphony)
	Marc J. Aubort - Crumb: Ancient Voices of Children (Weisberg conducting the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble; solos: Jan DeGaetani, Michael Dash)
	Paul Goodman - Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture; Beethoven: Wellington's Victory (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra)
	Gunter Hermanns - Holst: The Planets (Steinberg conducting the Boston Symphony)
	Gordon Parry - Beethoven: Egmont - Complete Incidental Music (Szell conducting the Vienna Philharmonic)
	Carson C. Taylor - Janacek: Sinfonietta (Ozawa conducting the Chicago Symphony)
	Carson C. Taylor - Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major (Giulini conducting the Chicago Symphony)

Best Spoken Word Recording
	Desiderata - Les Crane
	Hamlet - Richard Chamberlain
	I Can Hear It Now - The Sixties - Walter Cronkite
	Long Day's Journey Into Night - Stacy Keach, Robert Ryan, Geraldine Fitzgerald
	Will Rogers' U.S.A. - James Whitmore

Best Comedy Recording
	This Is a Recording - Lily Tomlin
	Ajax Liquor Store - Hudson & Landry
	Cheech and Chong - Cheech & Chong
	Flip: The Flip Wilson Show - Flip Wilson
	When I Was a Kid - Bill Cosby

Best Recording for Children
	Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs - Bill Cosby
	"Sesame Street", "Rubber Duckie" and Other Songs from "Sesame Street" - Richard Wolfe Children's Chorus
	Sex Explained for Children - Stanley Daniels
	The Story of Sheherazade - Julie Harris
	Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - Golden Orchestra and Chorus (Peter Moore, conductor)

Best Engineered Recording
	Dave Purple, Henry Bush, Ron Capone - "Theme from Shaft" (Isaac Hayes)
	Ray Gerhardt, Dick Bogert - Carpenters (The Carpenters)
	Bones Howe - The 5th Dimension Live! (5th Dimension)
	Larry Levine, Roger Roche - Wings (Michael Colombier)
	Armin Steiner - "Stones" (Neil Diamond)

Best Album Cover
	Gene Brownell, Dean O. Torrancc - Pollution (Pollution)
	John Berg, Robert Lockart, Norman Seef - B, S, & T 4 (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
	Vincent J. Biondi, design; Susan Obrant, illustration - The Music of Erik Satie: Through a Looking Glass (Camarata Contemporary Chamber Orchestra)
	Acy Lehman, design; Nick Sangiamo, photographer - Bark - (Jefferson Airplane)
	Norman Seef, John Van Hamersveld - Black Pearl (Jimmy McGriff)
	Ed Thrasher, John Van Hamersveld - Hot Platters (various)
	Ed Thrasher, art director; Terry Paul, photographer - Sharepickers (Mason Williams)
	Craig Braun, design; Andy Warhol, photographer - Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones)

Best Album Notes
	Sam Samudio - Sam Hard and Heavy (Samudio)
	Colman Andrews - Miles Davis
	Don Demicheal - The Genius of Louis Armstrong
	Nat Hentoff - Louis Armstrong July 4, 1900 - July 6, 1971
	James Lyons - Music of Varese (Simonovitch conducting the Paris Intstrumental Ensemble)
	Joshua Rifkin - Piano Rags by Scott Joplin (Rifkin)
	George T. Simon - This Is Benny Goodman
	Tom West - Honky Tonkin' with Charlie Walker

Lifetime Achievement Award
	Elvis Presley

Trustees Award
	Beatles (George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr)